Finding Balance: an Introduction to Acupuncture

Mindful Metropolis, June 2010—Acceptance of acupuncture and Chinese Medicine is on the rise in Chicago, led by dedicated practitioners like Jennifer Paschen of The Nest.
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Push It! 2009 Maternity Guide

Daily Candy, March 2009—Ask again later. Better not tell you. Cannot predict now. Stop asking the Magic 8-Ball when you’re going to pop and get prepared.
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Au Natural:Nine Ways to Manage Labor without Drugs

Parents magazine—From having a baby in water to acupuncture, here are nine methods, philosophies, and professions to help you give birth on your own terms.

To watch most baby-bearing American movies and television you’d think that giving birth means being in a hospital, strapped to a monitor, drugged and flat on your back. But that’s not the only way. With the national rate for Cesarean surgery at 31.8 percent, more and more women are turning to natural birth in hopes of avoiding the regimentation and unnecessary medical interventions that can accompany a hospital birth. Whether it’s HypnoBirthing, acupuncture, the Bradley Method, or a water birth, there are many alternatives to the flat-on-your-back hospital scene.
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The Nest – September 2008

Lincoln Square COC profile, September 2008—Every so often, you encounter a name in life that makes you wonder whether it was a self-fulfilling prophesy. An arborist named Forester Dean. An herbalist named Louise Plant. A high jumper in the Olympics named Nathan Leeper. An optometrist named Dr. Steven I. Ball. Lincoln Square’s example of this phenomenon is Jennifer Paschen (pronounced like “passion”), who founded the aptly named integrative health care center called The Nest.
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